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To: cogitator
the DEFINITIVE way to watch the LOTR will be late in 2004, when all three extended-version DVDs are out. Then you'll want to go somewhere (I need a friend with a superb home theater system), get a good breakfast, and then watch the whole thing end-to-end with as few breaks as possible. Pack a lunch.

Yup. Another good thing will be for the various big Cinerama-type 70mm houses to do the same thing. Show all of the extended versions back to back with only intermissions between them as a day long event. People would pay big bucks. Make it a first class affair with catered meals, T-shirts and paraphenalia. I'd do it. They could pack the house and charge a couple hundred a seat.

It might even become a recurring event, like Wagner's Ring series. This story is essentially that: Wagner for a new generation.

70 posted on 12/19/2002 10:27:43 AM PST by Ramius
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To: Ramius
It might even become a recurring event, like Wagner's Ring series. This story is essentially that: Wagner for a new generation.

Having not seen it yet, I've been having trouble remembering the main melodic lines in the score. I keep trying to think of them but I always end up with "The Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla" from Die Gotterdamerung instead.

I agree with you on the "event" nature of showing all three movies together. Baltimore (about 45 minutes from where I live) has a theater called the Senator where it would be a great event. DC's Uptown could do it too, but it's a lot harder to get there for me (there aren't any good ways to get into DC from the north).

72 posted on 12/19/2002 10:32:55 AM PST by cogitator
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